Re: [PATCH] Add hvc_console to MAINTAINERS

[Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 02:40:58PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 14:22 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:10:23 -0700
>> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 09:29 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
>> > > Add a MAINTAINERS entry for the hypervisor virtual console support
>> > > used on IBM POWER servers.
>> > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
>> > > index c5f4e9d..387ad45 100644
>> > > --- a/MAINTAINERS
>> > > +++ b/MAINTAINERS
>> > > @@ -2176,6 +2176,11 @@ W:       http://www.ia64-linux.org/
>> > >  T:     git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git
>> > >  S:     Maintained
>> > >  
>> > > +IBM HYPERVISOR VIRTUAL CONSOLE
>> > > +P:     Several
>> > > +L:     linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
>> > > +S:     Maintained
>> > > +
>> > >  IBM MCA SCSI SUBSYSTEM DRIVER
>> > >  P:     Michael Lang
>> > >  M:     langa2@kph.uni-mainz.de
>> > 
>> > I think this sort of entry should not be acceptable.
>> > Maintainers should have individual names and contact addresses.
>> 
>> There isn't a maintainer.
>> 
>> But people send patches to the wrong list, so the ppc guys (who use
>> this driver) don't get to see them.
>> 
>> That's a practical, real-world problem.  We should have a fix for it.
>> 
>> > An exploder entry should be OK though.
>> > For instance, the DVB subsystem:
>> > 
>> > 	DVB SUBSYSTEM AND DRIVERS
>> > 	P:	LinuxTV.org Project
>> > 	M:	linux-media@vger.kernel.org
>> > 
>> > A list entry could be something like:
>> > 
>> > 	P:	Linux PCMCIA Team
>> > 	L:	linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org
>> > 
>> 
>> I'm unclear on what the difference is here..
>
>I have no problem with the "L: list" entry.
>I think that's good.  Along with some file
>matching pattern as well of course...
>
>I think the "P: Several" entry is not good.
>
>"Several" doesn't give any idea as to who
>actually does the work.

I copied that from something else in MAINTAINERS.  I believe it
was the KERNEL JANITORS entry.  I guess I should have known better
than to copy from that...

>If the "P:" entry is there at all, it should
>be the list name.
>
>Maybe "P: Linux PPC Development Team" or
>something similar.

Except that isn't right for the reasons Michael specified.

josh